Jean de Villiers

Jean de Villiers (1217-9 September 1294) was the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers from from 1285 to 1293, succeeding Nicolas Lorgne and preceding Odon de Pins.

Biography
Jean de Villiers was born in 1217 to the House of Villiers, a family of Catholic French. He became the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers in 1285, and he became entangled with affairs in the Kingdom of Cyprus, so he planned to take over Rhodes from the Byzantine Empire. Villiers was restricted to the County of Tripoli, and in 1291 he tried to defend the city of Acre from the Mamelukes. However, he escaped before the city fell. He died in 1294.